In Germany, Complaints About iPhone Delays

While there are many who think Steve Jobs and his iPhone can do no wrong, there’s at least one person in Germany who thinks otherwise: Niek Jan van Damme, managing director of Deutsche Telekom AG’s German business.

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Deutsche Telekom’s headquarters

Over the weekend, Mr. Van Damme complained to German magazine Focus that consumers in Europe’s largest economy will now have to wait nine weeks for Apple’s iPhone 4.

“We have tens of thousands of advance orders for the device. Without the delays, we could have completed a lot more iPhone contracts,” he said in the magazine. The iPhone 4 launched in Germany on June 24, the same day it went on sale in the U.S., but has since been delayed. Mr. Van Damme said in the interview that Apple had given the company no reason behind the delays. Apple did not immediately respond to a request for comment.